Male friendship doesn't fail because men can't be intimate. It fails because the script that made intimacy legible to men was a performance, and the stages are being dismantled. What's left is a person who was taught to talk only with an audience.

Men
The Quiet After the Performance: Why Male Friendships Go Silent and What That Actually Means
Male friendship doesn't fail because men can't be intimate. It fails because the script that made intimacy legible to men was a performance, and the stages are being dismantled. What's left is a person who was taught to talk only with an audience.
